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Discusses quite a few geometric and analytic elements of non-positive curvature, beginning with Riemannian examples and tension theorems. Treats generalized notions of nonpositive curvature within the feel of Alexandrov and Busemann & the idea of harmonic maps with values in such areas. Paper.

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Is a nonparallel Killing field, whose norm is bounded. If we suppose that grad f has not a constant direction one can prove that this manifold is locally irreducible. dt2, where f has the same Riemannian manifold, then we define = is a Killing field under the same conditions properties as above, then as above. let us consider a Riemannian metric of the form g = (ct(t))2(dx2 + dy2) + dt2, with cz(t) a nonconstant, differentiable, positive,bounded function on R. is a nonparallel Killing field with bounded norm.

4) (FV)U. Fnr any X 0, Fr. 4) gives + Q or, equivalently, g(c(U,X),JV) + = 0, for any V tangent to N. 3, D is integrable. Let NT be an integral submanifold of D. 6, NT is totally goedesic in N. 5, N1 is totally geodesic. Taking U Conversely, suppose that N is a CR-product. that B for any X 0 and U tangent to N. First of all we shall show Since N is locally a Riemannian product of NT(holomorphic submanifold) and N1 (totally real subinanifold), it 01. 6) we have = + (Z,JX) — J(Z,X). 4) we D for any U tangent to N.

We define the adjugate of A to be the endomorphism A : V -+ V of the oriented Euclidean space V. given by the composition Am-ly > Am_i where * denotes the Hodge duality Isomorphism. Relative to an orthonormal base of V, the matrix of A has entries which are the cofactors of those of A. 7) . m (Am_PA) * as an endomorphism of A det = (det A)':p_l) so that = ak(APA ) °m' 1 k (m) Apparently, general formulas for ak(APA) (in terms of the elementary symmetric functions) are not known explicitly. Xq_1(A)); c1(Xq(A) - Cayley-Hamilton theorem).